Therapeutic Worlds: Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life

by Daniel Nehring, Emmanuel Alvarado, Dylan Kerrigan

This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises everyday experiences of intimacy, its argument is grounded in qualitative research in Trinidad in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Against the backdrop of Trinidad's colonial and postcolonial history, the authors map the development of therapeutic institutions and popular therapeutic practices and explore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472425987
• ISBN13: 9781472425980
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"